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Modern PPTQ Season

Welcome back mates! So we just had the Pro Tour in Sydney Australia and I'm sure this week is going to be filled with articles talking about the decks from the Pro Tour, so let's talk Modern instead.

Modern PPTQ season is coming up and there are some big Modern events headed our way too. The decks I will be covering today are from Magic Online and they have all gone undefeated. Now Magic Online is no Pro Tour but it's also no FNM. Going 5-0 isn't an easy feat and these people all did it. Want to know what's more exciting? All these decks aren't played that much or they are brand new. So you can get the rogue factor by playing these decks at your tournament. Now, we aren't doing the rogue factor just to be cool, it really does help you win when your opponent doesn't know what you're doing or what your deck is capable of. Let's go over them so you can win and get on the Pro Tour!

This deck is starting to pick up some steam. I haven't seen it much anywhere except online but that will change as time goes on. I've seen many iterations of the deck: some running five colors, running Bridge from Below, or just going for straight creature recreation. This list is doing the latter by having nine creatures that come back from the graveyard when certain criteria is met.

The idea here is to fill your graveyard as quickly as possible so you can start playing from your graveyard. This deck is highly resilient to discard in practically any form since it wants almost all of its cards in the graveyard anyway. The idea here is to dredge your cards to stock your graveyard. You can get cards in your graveyard initially from Tormenting Voice, Faithless Looting, Conflagrate, and Insolent Neonate. Getting a Stinkweed Imp or Golgari Grave Troll in your graveyard will really speed things up for you. After you have enough creatures in your graveyard you can dredge back a Dakmor Salavge to trigger all your Bloodghasts which in turn will trigger all your Prized Amalgam. You can even do this at instant speed with fetchlands.

One thing you might not notice right away is Insolent Neonate makes you discard a card first. So you can discard a dredge card and then dredge it back instead of drawing. Another neat trick comes with Life from the Loam and Conflagrate. These two cards give the deck reach in the mid to late game. You can dredge Life from the Loam to get a bunch of lands in your hand and then burn out your opponent or Plague Wind your opponent's board with Conflagrate's flashback cost.

A deck with many interactions and triggers. If you plan to play this sweet deck make sure to get practice with it first!

Mike lowered the curve a bit in this deck by adding Eldrazi. It makes the deck not as explosive but allows it to function just fine without getting Tron online. The curve of Talisman of Impulse, Thought-Knot Seer, Reality Smasher, World Breaker will close a game out very fast. That is the perk for lowering the curve. This deck has a lot of game against Burn and other aggro decks too because of Thought-Knot Seer and Kozilek's Return. Thought-Knot Seer will take a burn spell, creature, or pump spell and then it can block or trade with their creatures. That's huge in the aggro matchups.

Mike opted to go with Dismember over Lightning Bolt. This is probably due to the decline of burn decks over the past month or so; Dismember is better against infect and decks playing Tarmogoyf. However, it is worse against Merfolk, which seems to be rising in popularity, so I'd keep that in mind if you thinking about switching.

On top of protection you can even grow your creatures with Drogskol Captain and Anafenza, Kin-Tree Spirit. Your spirits have low toughness so they will usually be attacking and won't block that much, so Caleb has a pair of Rhox War Monks to hold up the ground so your spirits can fly in and do some real damage.

This deck has plenty of room to grow and adapt. One, because it's new and not fully tuned. Two, because the deck only has a twelve card sideboard. So it can literally grow in size and power by adding three cards to the sideboard. Some cards I would suggest are:

Kudos to Alex for a sweet list. One thing I would add however would be Keranos, God of Storms, Eidolon of Rhetoric, and/or Ruric Thar the Unbowed. Gotta beat Jund and stop those combo players from trying to combo you out!

Well ladies and gentlemen, that's all I have for you today. I hope you liked at least one of these decks and that you crush your next Modern event.

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